Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
Madison won the Bancroft Prize and the James Bradford Best Biography Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. James Madison's Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution's creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account?
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780674055278
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Constitutional Convention of 1787James Madison's NotesU.S. Constitution history
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2016)
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